Ephraim Urbach collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Ephraim Urbach
Biographical History
Ephraim Elimelech Urbach (1912-1991) was born in Bialystok, Poland, and after rabbinical studies in Rome and Breslau, was ordained a rabbi in Poland in 1934. He immigrated to Palestine in 1938, and served with the British Army as a chaplain during World War II. Following the war, he served as a rabbi and scholar in Israel, publishing several books on Jewish history and religious law, and working to establish ancient Hebrew as a modern spoken language. He was a member of the Hebrew Language Academy, and was a president of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Israel. He died at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on 2 July 1991. [Source: Obituary, New York Times, 3 July 1991].
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Sosland Family.
Purchase, Kedem Public Auction House, Ltd., 2016.
Scope and Content
Circular letters, reports, and newsletters, and related materials, collected by Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, during the time when he served as a chaplain with the British Army, ministering in displaced persons camps in Italy, circa 1944-1947. Includes two mimeographed reports issued by the Hechalutz Ha-Echad in Bari, Italy, 1946-1947; letters sent to various institutes in Palestine requesting medical supplies, books and teaching materials for use in displaced persons camps in Italy, 1944; typescript copy of a report filed by a representative (L. Bernstein) of the Central Committee of the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, describing a visit to camps in southern Italy in the wake of unrest, including attacks by refugees on UNRRA officers, October 1946; memoranda from the Jewish Chaplains Welfare Centre, 1944; and one letter, on letterhead from the Beit-Alliat Hanoar, Selvino, Italy, addressed to the Histadrut executive committee of the Department of Pioneers, Tel Aviv, 1947.
Corporate Bodies
- Hechalutz (Organization)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Italy--Selvino.
- Jewish refugees--Italy.
- Holocaust survivors--Italy--Bari.
- Great Britain. Army--Chaplains.
- Selvino (Italy)
- Bari (Italy)
Genre
- Document